I've Built Apps for the Last Decade: Here's My 10 Tips to Launch
A decade of shipping apps and the 10 rules that actually move the needle: Google login, charge from day one, MoSCoW MVPs, retention over acquisition.
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6 Million Fake GitHub Stars Are Fueling a Shadow VC Pipeline
A CMU study found 6 million fake stars across 18,000 repos. Stars sell for $0.06 each, and VCs use them to source seed deals worth millions.
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Cal.com Abandons Open Source, Blames AI-Powered Security Threats
Cal.com closes its open-source codebase after 5 years, citing AI-driven vulnerability scanning. The community is split.
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How Y Combinator Works in 2026: YC Application, Terms & Alumni
Complete guide to how Y Combinator works in 2026 — YC acceptance rate, application process, $500K investment terms, Demo Day, and biggest YC unicorns.
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18 Best Platforms to Sell Your Startup in 2026
Every marketplace, broker, and acquisition platform where founders sell startups in 2026 — from micro-SaaS to eight-figure exits.
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This $25/Month AI Tool Wants to Replace McKinsey
Indian startup Rocket launched an AI platform that generates McKinsey-style consulting reports for a fraction of the cost. 1.5 million users already.
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OpenAI Alumni Launch Zero Shot, a $100 Million Venture Fund
Three former OpenAI engineers launched Zero Shot, a new VC fund targeting $100 million to back AI and robotics startups.
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Top 10 Tech News Websites You Should Read in 2026
The best tech news websites in 2026 for startups, AI, funding, cybersecurity, and gadgets. TechCrunch, The Verge, Wired, Ceowire, and more.
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Sequoia Maps $1 Trillion in Services Being Replaced by AI Agents
Sequoia Capital argues AI agents will replace human-hour services across insurance, accounting, IT, and procurement in a $1 trillion market shift.
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Yupp Shuts Down After Raising $33 Million From a16z Crypto
Yupp, the crowdsourced AI model-picking startup backed by a16z crypto's Chris Dixon, shuts down less than a year after launch despite 1.3 million users.
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Every Startup Accelerator You Can Apply to Right Now (2026)
The complete list of startup accelerators open for applications in 2026, from Y Combinator to Antler — with investment terms and equity.
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Lovable Goes on an Acquisition Hunt at a $6.6 Billion Valuation
Vibe-coding startup Lovable is actively seeking startups and teams to acquire as it races to defend its position against OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cursor.
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Air Street Capital Raises $232 Million, Europe's Largest Solo VC Fund
Nathan Benaich's Air Street Capital closes a $232 million Fund III to back early-stage AI startups across Europe and North America. Total AUM hits $400 million.
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Lin Qiao: From PyTorch to a $4 Billion Inference Empire
How Lin Qiao built PyTorch at Meta, left to found Fireworks AI, and scaled the fastest AI inference platform to $4 billion in three years.
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Y Combinator's Winter 2026 Batch Bets Big on AI Agent Infrastructure
YC's W26 cohort reveals a startup generation building systems for AI agents, not humans — from monitoring tools to lunar habitats.
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Acquire.com: How Andrew Gazdecki Built the Largest Startup Marketplace
How Andrew Gazdecki turned a broken exit experience into Acquire.com, the startup marketplace with $500 million in deals across 100+ countries.
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Drew Houston: The USB Drive He Forgot That Built a $10 Billion Company
How Drew Houston built Dropbox from a forgotten USB drive into a $10 billion cloud storage giant serving 700 million registered users worldwide.
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Henrique Dubugras: From Coding at 9 to a $12 Billion Brex Empire
How Henrique Dubugras built his first startup at 14, sold it for $150 million at 18, and co-founded Brex, the $12 billion corporate card for startups.
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Alexandr Wang: From Los Alamos to a $14 Billion AI Empire
How Alexandr Wang dropped out of MIT at 19 to build Scale AI, the data labeling giant now worth $14 billion powering defense and Big Tech.
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Max Hodak: From Neuralink's Lab to Making the Blind See Again
How Max Hodak left Neuralink, founded Science Corp, and built a $1.5 billion company restoring vision with a chip smaller than a grain of rice.
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Lovable Hits $400 Million ARR With Just 146 Employees
Lovable crossed $400 million in annual recurring revenue in February, adding $100 million in a single month with only 146 full-time employees.
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Juicebox Raises $80 Million at an $850 Million Valuation
AI recruiting platform Juicebox raises $80 million Series B led by DST Global at an $850 million valuation after tripling ARR since July 2025.
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Melanie Perkins: 100 Rejections to a $42 Billion Design Empire
How Melanie Perkins turned 100+ investor rejections into Canva, the $42 billion design platform with 265 million users and a 2026 IPO on the horizon.
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Mira Murati: From OpenAI's CTO to a $12 Billion AI Startup
How Mira Murati went from Albania to leading ChatGPT at OpenAI, survived a boardroom crisis, and built Thinking Machines Lab into a $12 billion AI venture.
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Top 10 Startup Funding Rounds: Who Raised What in March 2026
From OpenAI's record $110 billion round to a brain implant startup raising $230 million, here are the biggest raises of the week.
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53,000 Tech Workers Gone in 10 Weeks: 2026 Is Already Worse Than 2024
Amazon, Block, Oracle, and Salesforce are slashing tens of thousands of jobs. AI is the excuse. The real picture is darker.
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Sam Altman: From Fired to Running an $830 Billion Empire
How Sam Altman went from Stanford dropout to OpenAI CEO, survived a boardroom coup, and built the most valuable startup in history.
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Elon Musk: The Man Who Sued OpenAI and Built xAI to Replace It
How Elon Musk co-founded OpenAI, left the board, sued Sam Altman, then built xAI and Grok into a $250 billion AI rival with the world's largest supercomputer.
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Steve Huffman: How Reddit's Founder Built the Front Page of the Internet
How Steve Huffman co-founded Reddit in 2005, left, came back, took it public in 2024, and turned it into a $28 billion AI data goldmine.
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Kyle Vogt: From Self-Driving Cars to Home Robots
How Kyle Vogt co-founded Twitch, built Cruise into a $1 billion GM acquisition, and launched The Bot Company — now valued at $4 billion.
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Brian Armstrong: The Engineer Who Bet Everything on Bitcoin
How Brian Armstrong went from Airbnb engineer to Coinbase CEO, building a $60 billion crypto exchange that survived SEC lawsuits and crypto winters.
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Bret Taylor: From Google Maps to a $10 Billion AI Empire
How Bret Taylor co-created Google Maps, led Facebook and Salesforce, chaired OpenAI's board, and built Sierra AI to a $10 billion valuation in under two years.
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Sam Parr: From a Hot Dog Stand to a Media Empire
How Sam Parr built The Hustle to 2 million subscribers, sold it to HubSpot, and became one of tech's most influential media entrepreneurs.
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Cluely CEO Roy Lee Admits He Lied About $7 Million in Revenue
Cluely CEO Roy Lee confessed to fabricating $7 million in ARR. Andreessen Horowitz had led a $15 million Series A — without verifying the numbers.
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Tony Xu: From Waiting Tables to a $82 Billion Delivery Empire
How Tony Xu built DoorDash from a Stanford side project into the largest US food delivery company with $10 billion in annual revenue.
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Anatoly Yakovenko: The Engineer Who Made Blockchain Fast
How Anatoly Yakovenko went from 12 years at Qualcomm to founding Solana, the fastest Layer-1 blockchain processing 4,000 transactions per second.
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The Builder's Syndrome: Why You Start Everything and Finish Nothing
Why developers start projects and never finish them. AI made it worse. The Builder's Syndrome is the shiny object trap no one talks about.
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Brian Chesky: How Airbnb Turned Air Mattresses Into an $85 Billion Empire
How Brian Chesky went from RISD art student to CEO of Airbnb, the $85 billion travel giant with 7.7 million listings in 220 countries.
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Patrick Collison: Seven Lines of Code, $159 Billion Later
How Patrick Collison built Stripe from seven lines of code into a $159 billion payments giant processing $1.9 trillion annually.
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Da Nang Wants to Be Asia's Indie Hacker Capital by 2030
Da Nang hosted 13 startup teams for 30 days in its 2025 hacker residency. Now the city targets 500 startups by 2030 as Dubai loses its tech founder appeal.
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Brett Adcock: The Serial Founder Building a New Species
How Brett Adcock went from an Illinois farm to founding three billion-dollar companies and betting on humanoid robots at Figure AI.
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Aravind Srinivas: From Chennai to a $21 Billion AI Search Empire
How Aravind Srinivas built Perplexity AI into a $21 billion answer engine challenging Google, becoming India's youngest billionaire at 31.
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Brendan Foody: From Selling Donuts to a $10 Billion AI Empire
How Brendan Foody dropped out of Georgetown, co-founded Mercor, and built the fastest-growing AI hiring platform to a $10 billion valuation by age 22.
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Stewart Butterfield: How Two Failed Games Built a $27 Billion Empire
How Stewart Butterfield turned two failed video games into Flickr and Slack, the fastest-growing SaaS tool ever, sold to Salesforce for $27.7 billion in 2021.
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Palmer Luckey: From VR Prodigy to Defense Tech Titan
How Palmer Luckey built Oculus VR at 19, sold it to Facebook for $2 billion, got fired, and founded Anduril Industries, now valued at $60 billion.
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Cameron McCord: From 484 Days Underwater to a $1B Startup
How Cameron McCord went from Navy submarine officer to building Nominal, the $1 billion hardware testing platform used by top defense contractors in 2026.
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Dario Amodei: The Physicist Who Bet Everything on AI Safety
How Dario Amodei left OpenAI, co-founded Anthropic, and built a $380 billion AI safety empire now generating $19 billion in annualized revenue.
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Demi Guo: From Olympiad Prodigy to AI Video Pioneer at Pika
How Demi Guo dropped out of Stanford's AI PhD to co-found Pika, the AI video generation startup valued at $470 million with 16 million users.
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May Habib: From War-Torn Lebanon to a $1.9 Billion AI Empire
How May Habib built Writer into the leading enterprise AI platform valued at $1.9 billion, serving Uber, Salesforce, and L'Oréal.
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Fei-Fei Li: From a Laundromat in New Jersey to the Godmother of AI
How Fei-Fei Li immigrated to the US at 16, created ImageNet, and founded World Labs — the spatial intelligence startup valued at $5 billion.
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Dylan Field: How a College Dropout Built Figma Into a $68 Billion Giant
How Dylan Field dropped out of Brown, won a Thiel Fellowship, and turned Figma into the $68 billion design platform that beat Adobe at its own game.
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Jaspar Carmichael-Jack: From Surrey to Silicon Valley's Billboards
How 24-year-old British founder Jaspar Carmichael-Jack built Artisan AI, the AI sales agent startup behind Ava, from rage-bait billboards to $46 million raised.
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Parker Conrad: From Public Disgrace to a $16.8 Billion Comeback
How Parker Conrad went from forced resignation at Zenefits to building Rippling, the $16.8 billion compound startup reshaping HR, IT, and finance.
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Ivan Zhao: From a Cold Apartment in Kyoto to a $10 Billion Empire
How Ivan Zhao rebuilt Notion from near-collapse in Kyoto to 100 million users and $500 million in revenue, redefining productivity software with AI.
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Ilya Sutskever: The Man Who Fired Sam Altman and Started Over
How Ilya Sutskever co-built AlexNet, co-founded OpenAI, tried to oust Sam Altman, and launched Safe Superintelligence — now valued at $32 billion.
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Edwin Chen: The Bootstrapped Billionaire Behind AI's Data Engine
How Edwin Chen built Surge AI, the bootstrapped data labeling startup hitting $1.2 billion in revenue powering OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.
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